Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?

If she’s gonna love again, it won’t be an eternity but a hard, fast conflagration that leaves everyone else in the embers.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they're alike. They're both wonderful as long as they last.

I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

An enemy is indeed a precious teacher.

The best bet you get is an even break.

There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.